Movie Reviews and Previews Cannes 2012: Heavy on Hollywood (Lainey: I’m still catching up after flying overnight to Cannes. Trying to rush out a few new articles but let’s start first with Sarah’s Cannes preview since they’re all starting to arrive. I screen Moonrise Kingdom tonight. Attached - the cast at the photo call today. By Sarah • May 16, 2012 11:36 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Please care about Spider-Man That’s what all these ads should say. “Please care about us”, and, “Hey we made a superhero movie, too!” Sony’s The Amazing Spider-Man, the middle child of the summer superhero titles, is going full-tilt trying to build up interest in the movie that no one particularly wanted. They’ By Sarah • May 15, 2012 11:06 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Johnny needs the foreign money Johnny Depp spent the weekend in Japan promoting Dark Shadows. You know they love him there. They come through for him every time there. And he’ll need them to again because, well, The Avengers owns his ass; The Avengers owns everyone’s ass. Dark Shadows opened in second position By Lainey • May 14, 2012 09:55 am
Maple Leaf Taylor Kitsch buzzed You like it? I don’t like it. Especially since his hair looked so good two weeks ago at CinemaCon - click here for a refresher. Here’s Taylor Kitsch, freshly buzzed, at the LA premiere of Battleship last night. Also attached - Alexander Skarsgard, Liam Neeson, and Brooklyn Decker By Lainey • May 11, 2012 11:12 am
Maple Leaf Eva & Ryan: handholding and not hiding Yesterday in New York - here are Eva Mendes and Ryan Gosling hand in hand after lunch, not ducking into garbage bins and running for cover in the presence of the paps. Thank you. It’s not ideal, no. But if that’s the sh-ttiest part of their jobs, I By Lainey • May 11, 2012 09:31 am
Movie Reviews and Previews The Avengers’ earth-shattering box office In the days leading up to The Avengers release on May 4, the projections were calling for a $150-170 million opening weekend. I thought it would just beat the high side, ending up around $172 million, which would best the previous opening weekend record set by Harry Potter and the By Sarah • May 10, 2012 09:57 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Really animated Will Will Smith and the Men In Black 3 team were in Asia earlier this week to promote the movie. Does he seem really, really animated to you? I mean he’s always super-animated but I feel like this time there’s some extra to his natural all day party. And By Lainey • May 09, 2012 01:22 pm
Parent Pimps Look familiar? And where’s Blake? Chloe Moretz stopped by Letterman yesterday before the Hick screening last night in New York. Some of these expressions, and that turn of her body, does it remind you of someone? I swear in a couple of these thumbnails I thought it was Lindsay Lohan 2006. The style experts are By Lainey • May 04, 2012 01:47 pm
Quiveration Colin in pyjamas Here's Colin Farrell in pyjamas on the set of his new film Dead Man Down in Philadelphia. He looks good, doesn't he? He's been looking for a while. Couple weeks ago in LA I was talking about him, just a general update, with an By Lainey • May 04, 2012 12:24 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Peter Parker, middle child I’ve been worried for The Amazing Spider-Man for several months now. Ever since I heard the marketing was being held up in order to recalibrate the approach in the face of underwhelming reaction to the first trailer and marketing push late last year, I’ve wondered if Spider-Man doesn’ By Sarah • May 04, 2012 11:57 am
Media Manipulation Here comes the Will Smith publicity machine Already? That really seemed to come fast. It’s May. We’re 3 weeks out (May 25) from the release of Men In Black 3. Which means it’s officially Will Smith selling season. He was joined by Tommy Lee Jones and Josh Brolin today at a photo call for By Lainey • May 03, 2012 04:33 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Bond will be funnier Daniel Craig, new Bond Girls Naomie Harrie, Berenice Marlohe, and the rest of the Bond team including director Sam Mendes attended a photo call in Istanbul yesterday where many previous Bonds have filmed before; it’s apparently Ian Fleming’s “favourite city”. As expected they’ve kept the story for By Lainey • May 01, 2012 04:35 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews JGL, Julianne, and The Dark Knight Rises Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Julianne Moore went for a walk in New York yesterday. Apparently he’s directing her in a new movie. Scarlett Johansson will also star. JGL worked on the script, a romantic comedy about a player who is trying to commit: "I wrote myself a helluva role, By Lainey • May 01, 2012 11:31 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Top Gun Jr will fly! The Hollywood Reporter interviewed the head of Paramount Adam Goodman. Click here to read the full article. Among the many topics he addressed, including Transformers 4 without Shia Labeouf etc, was the Top Gun sequel. It’s happening. Tom Cruise wants to do it. Bruckheimer is on board (of course By Lainey • Apr 27, 2012 01:41 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Leo the villain Entertainment Weekly has the first look at Quentin Tarantino’s highly anticipated Django Unchained starring Jamie Foxx as a slave liberated by Christoph Waltz and their efforts to free Foxx’s wife, Kerry Washington, who’s held at a plantation owned by a sadistic f-ck played by Leonardo DiCaprio. What By Lainey • Apr 26, 2012 12:31 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Budgets & Box office (Lainey: this is a question that came in recently from a reader called Issie. Sarah’s response is below.) I was on Box Office Mojo today, looking at the numbers for The Hunger Games. They've passed 1/2 billion worldwide and it looks like it'll be By Sarah • Apr 26, 2012 11:21 am
